Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-4-98

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.

Such a conditional sales contract, when the execution thereof has been acknowledged or proved before an officer having authority to take and certify the acknowledgment of conveyances and when such contract has been duly recorded, must be received in evidence without other proof of execution; and, if the original of such contract is lost or destroyed, or the party offering in evidence a certified transcript has not the custody or control thereof, a certified transcript from the record thereof must be received in evidence without other proof of the execution of the original.